Week 9 - Nov 8, 10 - Transnational migrations and diaspora musics
- Mon: Lecture (case studies: France, USA)
- Wed, Nov 10 & Fri, Nov 12: no class.
Readings:
Assigned reading:
Gross, Joan, David McMurray and Ted Swedenburg. “Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap and Franco-Maghrebi Identities.” Diaspora, 3/1, 1994, pp. 3-39.
Additional reading:
Naficy, Hamid. “Identity Politics and Iranian Exile Music Videos.” In Richard Young (ed.) Music, Popular Culture, Identities. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2002, pp. 249-267.
Further reading:
Swedenburg, Ted. “Islamic hip-hop vs. Islamophobia: Aki Nawaz, Natacha Atlas, Akhenaton,” in Mitchell, Tony (ed.) Global Noise: rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
